Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

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I’m sure, like me, you’ve
read numerous comments and watched enough news coverage to last a lifetime over
the mass murders in Orlando, Florida this past weekend. I don’t want to add to
that hype by giving an infected pus-bag shooter any more of my time. Any more
of my emotions. Any more my anything.

What does this mean for us,
the average citizen who’s maybe trying to raise a family or lead a productive
life? Well, for me, it means I’m going
to work even harder to realize my goals. And I’m not going to let pus-bags stop
me from living my life by second guessing where they’ll strike next. If I were to do that, then the enemy pus-bag wins.

I want to be the good I wish
to see in the world. Based off all the video coverage I’ve seen from Orlando of
all the people who helped or lined up to give blood, I think there are more
people who agree with me than those who don’t. So many times a call to action
comes from disaster, despair, and tragedy. We can all make a difference, if we
try.

Let’s start small. Our first
task is to open our minds to possibility that people who seem “different” from
us are not depraved or dangerous because they, in fact do, look or act in a way
we consider different. The color of someone’s skin, hair, and eyes has nothing
to do with what’s in their hearts. What a person wears or how they look is not
a sign of evil. Ideals, hopes and dreams are not wrong,
either. Love cannot be wrong.

Lying, cheating, and
stealing are wrong. Laziness and apathy is wrong. Murder is wrong. Cowards who
murder for their own gain, or in the name of some other entity is an
abomination.

Step into someone else’s
shoes for a moment before you pass judgment on them. Look at yourself through their eyes. What do they see when they
look at you? Will they see hostility? Indifference? Or will they see common decency offered to one
human being from another human being? Think about that. That’s the first step.

“Do not be overcome by evil,
but overcome evil with good.” – Romans 12:21

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I'm Nadine. Wife, mother, grandmother. I've been a teacher for many moons. I love to read. I think, therefore I write. Couldn't stop myself from being any of these things, even if I wanted to-- and I don't want to.